Best Pinball Part Suppliers

Anyone that’s owned a pinball machine knows that eventually something is break. Whether it be a flipper, a rubber, a ramp, etc, at some point a part fails while you’re playing. Heck even the balls get pitted after a while, you even need to replace them even if nothing else breaks. For a lot of people though, finding out where to order stuff is tough.

I’ve put together a list here of the best places to order parts from my past 13 years of experience. It’s purely my opinion, some other people may have totally different lists or opinions. Unfortunately, not one place is a central hub for all parts, most likely you’re going to have to use a bunch of these places depending on what breaks. It’s not unusual for me to order from 3 or 4 different places when completely fixing up a game. Without further ado, here’s the list.

Common Pinball Part Vendors

Pinball Life. This is the number one place I order parts from. Cheaper than almost everyone for common parts, their only downfall is that they lack a lot of game specific parts. So as long as the parts you need are just like rubbers, flippers, etc they’ll be the best, but if you need like a ramp for a game you’re likely going to have to order somewhere else.

Marco Specialties. They typically have the biggest assortment of parts for games. Usually if I need a game specific part I check here first, then check somewhere else to see if I can get it cheaper. They’re a good company, but I find that typically their prices are higher than everyone else on everything including shipping. Sometimes they’ll surprise me with a good deal though. They ship fast, probably faster than almost everyone else to their credit.

Bay Area Amusements. Like Marco, only they don’t have as many parts and have a way worse website. You’ll notice this with a lot of pinball parts vendors, their websites are from like the early 2000’s. They have a lot of game specific parts that I order, but I rarely order any common part, in part because it’s a pain to find.

LED Pinball Vendors

Comet. I know some people will say Cointaker and originally I would have said them too, but as they got bigger some of their competitors undercut them to a degree. Comet is the major player who took some of their market share. I order pretty much all my LED’s from Comet these days, high quality product at discount prices.

Cointaker. The biggest LED vendor (or at least they were at one point) they’ve expanded out to new game sales, shaker motors, etc. Still offer some great game specific LED packages that are handy if you want to color match. I’ve used a couple of their game specific kits and they were mostly good, only a couple places where either I had the wrong LED or the machine I was working on had a different socket/color for some reason.

Game Specific Pinball Parts

Marco Specialties. They’ve got the best overall selection for game specific parts, although usually they’re most expensive for that part as well.

Pinball Resource. For Gottlieb parts, this is basically your only choice as they hold the license. It’s also like traveling back in time when you order from them. Credit cards? Won’t accept them. Online ordering? Nope. It all works through phone or email ordering and they bill you. They insist on part numbers, however, the part numbers aren’t readily available because you need the manual which they won’t allow digital copies of online, lol. So you get into this chicken/egg scenario where you need parts but don’t have a manual to look them up.

Pinball Mod Vendors

Mezel Mods. They’re the official mod vendor for Stern and have made quite a business selling them. They’ve really expanded their selection.

Growing up I was a huge player of arcade, PC, and console games. Now that I'm older, I've gravitated towards pinball, bubble hockey, online video games, and more. I built this website to try and help out the new person to different aspects of the game room, including options he may not have even considered. Hopefully you find it helpful, and if there's anything you need don't hesitate to contact me. Thank you for visiting my website, I appreciate your support!